TV GUIDE

I know that TV Guide isn't the usual place where you would find a painted cover by Alex Ross but this amazing set of interlocking covers for the December, 2001 issue, has an in-depth review of that little known TV show called Smallvile, which was a big phenomenon back then so they decided to bring the guy who bridges the gap between comic books and real life to paint the main characters. Let me tell you that Alex is (or was) a fan of this show up to the point where he painted Tom Welling, who portrays Clark Kent on the show, a few more times after this one, once with Christopher Reeve and another with the Super-suit (I'll post those images soon). These covers are spectacular, although the likenesses are not what might be called "dead-on" but the backgrounds and the flying Superman in the last cover kinda make the image, as a whole, an incredible one.

To celebrate the return of Spider-Man to the big screen in 2002, this fine publication released another series of pseudo-interlocking covers but this time by different artists, I said "pseudo" because the background was similar in all issues but the Spidey pose was different. Alex got to do the last of 4 issues, the other 3 were made by guys like Mark Bagley, John Romita Sr. and Jr. Alex's pose for the webhead features too little of the character, just his face and shoulders; they look ok but I wish there was more of it like the Wizard 100 cover where you can see all of Spidey in one of his trademark poses. All of the issues mentioned in this post are part of MY COLLECTION, well, the ones with Alex's art, of course.